Why Video Game Movies Are Going To Be The Next Big Thing.

This topic is something that came up yesterday while browsing Imgur. There was a post about John Wick (the movie), one of the comments that caught my eye, it was a comment about why cant video game movies be like this. And this got me thinking, well why not?

It is a solid action movie that makes sense (from an action stand point) The main character actually takes damage, slows down when he does so, reloads often and pulls off quite a few head-shots. Basically what most gamers would do if they were playing the "scenario". Probably the reason all my friends loved the action sequences so much.

Now there has been a few movie adaptations from the past decade or so, Resident Evil being one of the most popular. The story was far to heavily action based, didn't make sense and was basically "arrgh zombies", and they made 5 movies, with a 6th in the making, out of this. Made quite a bit of money but deviated from the source material heavily, which is where they go wrong. A perfect balance of action and story is what is needed in these adaptions.

And that is where games come in. They have a really epic stories as well as action, Red Dead Redemption and BioShock for example. The ending and twists in those two games had me reeling and are truly unforgettable. And the thing is, they would transfer phenomenally to movies. Imagine watching a spaghetti western with John Marston as the character as he battles to get his family back. Or a survival horror based in the depths of Rapture. Personally, I would pay to see those films before watching another Marvel/DC film.

Now don't get me wrong, I love the comic book movies, Avengers is one of my favorite films of the past decade. But they are going to get repetitive after we see Thor and Cap beat the bad guys for the 8th time. But even with the massive amount of super hero movie on the way, they are going to run out eventually.

When the comic universe is mined out and Michael Bay has run out of things to explode from our childhood I think games are going to be the next logical big cash pot that Hollywood will dip into to supplement their lack of original ideas.

What is your opinion?, will we be seeing Super hero movies for the next decade or will video game adaptations creep up there?